Jeff Bezos: The Smart People Change Their Minds — Amazon.com Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos stopped by the 37signals office yesterday and offered some wise thoughts about strategy. His views are especially refreshing in a time when people who change their views often get portrayed as weak and lacking confidence.

Money Troubles: What Happens When Kickstarters Fail? — Since Kickstarting games became a thing, everyone has soothsayed the possibility of how it could go wrong. There are two significant ways, really. A high profile game comes out, and is a big pile of doo-doo. Or a high profile game never comes out at all.

Google Weighs Mobile-Patent Antitrust Settlement — Google Inc. is weighing whether to settle a potential claim by U.S. authorities that it violated antitrust law in the way it handles mobile-device patents, according to a person familiar with the matter. — At issue, according …

India, A New Facebook Testing Ground — BANGALORE—India is becoming a critical testing ground for Facebook as it strives to cash in on growth in emerging markets and better target mobile-phone users—two increasingly pressing goals for the social-networking firm.

Why Windows Just Can't Win — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about the future of Windows at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — Microsoft is about to have its biggest product release in nearly 20 years. Before the end of the month, Windows 8 …

Apple starts work on massive Prineville data center — Apple has begun work on the first, $68 million phase of its new Prineville data center, clearing and flattening land for the one of two, 338,000 square-foot buildings atop the bluff that overlooks town. — Each building is more than twice the size of a typical Costco store.

Thiel in Talks to Invest in Airbnb at $2.5B Valuation — Online room rental service Airbnb Inc. is in discussions with venture capitalist Peter Thiel about a roughly $150 million investment that would value the company at around $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

GitHub hit by DDoS attack second day in a row — GitHub is having one hell of a week, with four outages in five weekdays. The social coding site is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the second one in two days. The site's engineers are working on fixing the issue …

Facebook: We Weren't Moving Fast Enough in Mobile — One of Facebook's mottos is “Move Fast.” Indeed, there are posters extolling that mind-set throughout the company's offices. — But when it comes to mobile, even Facebook wasn't moving fast enough. That was the message on Friday from Facebook Mobile VP Vaughan Smith.